Materialistic????

Question

I'm a real lover of beautiful things.... but..... how can you justify spending £400 on a pair of shoes, £2000 on a dress or £100 on a scarf because it has a designers name next to it? Or beacuse it's cut in a certain way? Does spending this amount on clothes/beauty/fashion ever play with your conscience when there are young people in your towm/city sleeping on the streets, or kids starving in Asia/Africa?

DOPEYSAURUS - my laptop cost lots of money but I use it for work... which happens to be working with former rough sleepers. I also spent about 2 years doing voluntary work with the homeless, and I don't spend vast amounts on clothes that I can buy for less elsewhere.

Answer 1

Be fashionable and become a Chav and buy cheap bling! Personally, I think some cheap stuff can be great. Click the link below and then look at the gold hearts. They are a great gift, very inexpensive and good quality for the price. The money also goes to a good charity. You sound loaded - so buy one of each design. get a hat or maybe a gilet and pin them all over it. I promise you will look fashionable and cool. Anyone asks, you support the charity and you have friends in "the business". They will even think you're a nice caring person then for supporting a charity that helps children. That's a good answer - I'm on form today - must have a few top answers!! LOL

Answer 2

I bet you, most of the things that can be bought with £400 can be bought in £100 or less, I think they rip you off because they know you've got loads of money and you're basically paying so they can pay for resources to make the next dress too. And so on. It is very materialistic though paying for one item that's over £400 or so. But at the end of the day, money can't buy beauty or class, that comes from within. I mean sometimes you see the most classy and beautiful looking girls and they open their mouths and say the foulest thing. Beauty is something you're born with. Money bought beauty is ok at first but then you lose sight of reality and then you're no longer beautiful inside either.
Its's very hypocritical when stars go to help children starving in 3rd world countries because they buy £/$1,000 dresses at awards 3 weeks after or something. It's very wrong.

Answer 3

Or try £400 for a number 1 crew cut!?!?

The thing is 'morally' you can not justify this sort of money being spent on designer goods: 'Named' hair dressers: prestige cars etc: no matter how much you are worth!!

But we live in a self seeking, I want it now, materialistic society... where you always have to have it bigger, better and more stylish than John or Jane Doe next door!!

Oh people will dip their hands into their pockets and do 'their bit' for charity once in a while for such thing as live8, live aid, comic relief etc, to ease their consciousness a little... but when it all boils down to it...its look after number 1: and sod the rest!!

Answer 4

I refuse to over-pay for anything! I am not big on labels...I prefer what fits nicely, what looks good, and how inexpensive it is.

Its ridiculous how some people spend insane amounts on clothing, shoes and accessories. If I purchase something expensive, it weighs on my conscience because there are so many people who either barely have, or don't have the basic necessities...and I am not talking cable and the Internet, I mean FOOD and water or shelter.

Answer 5

im very materialistic i wouldnt think twice about spending £400 on a pair of shoes infact yesterday i spent £1300 on a pair of shoes and a handbag i know the money would help someone less fourtunate than me and i do give money every month to fara for the romanian orphans but if i work hard for my money y shouldnt i spend it on what I want ????

Answer 6

How much did you spend on your computer. For 10 pounds you can stop a child going blind in the third world.

Only a very few people are generous and selfless enough to put others before what they want.

I,m certainly not one of them, I wish I was though

Answer 7

I couldn't justify it.

Guess some people have different values and place importance on different things. With lots of money comes lots of peer pressure and expectations to wear designer gear?

Answer 8

I wouldn't say so...unless you really shouldn't be spending that much money and its putting you in debt. I think that if you have the money, you should be allowed to buy nice things. ( And this is coming from someone who is not exactly rich) Although, maybe it would be nice to donate some money...or change some shopping time to volunteering time.

Answer 9

it is a joke, absolutely no justifiction of those prices in the items. because some waldo cut them or put their name on them, and if the same people who bought those items were caught in an earthquake, would the cost of their clothes save them.

madness in a world of madness

Answer 10

A friend of mine is going to a wedding tomorrow where it is going to cost in the region of £40,000 pounds. I think it is scandalous and emphasises the difference between the have`s and the have nots.